Flexible working: working for families, working for business
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions established the Family Friendly Working Hours Taskforce to explore the challenges to increasing flexible working opportunities at all levels and provide recommendations for change. The Taskforce brings together a range of experts from business, organisations that represent businesses, employees and families, non-government bodies and government departments to provide expert perspective on flexible working practices.
The Taskforce believes that in order to achieve true cultural change, where flexible working opportunities have increased at all levels, more needs to be done to promote the business case for flexible working to employers and importantly more support is required to help all businesses to realise the benefits of flexible working in their organisation.
This report sets looks at this issue from the perspective of employers and sets out recommendations for what more can be done to both encourage and support employers to realise the benefits of flexible working in their organisation.
Think Fathers: How flexible working for Dads can work for your business
On 22 March 2010 we published ‘Think Fathers: How flexible working for Dads can work for your business’ jointly with the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), as announced in their recent publication, ‘Support for All – the Families and Relationships Green Paper’. This booklet highlights the social and economic benefits to employers and employees of implementing flexible working and other family-friendly policies for fathers and:
- sets out a range of case studies of father and family-friendly practices from different sized companies and sectors
- provides some top tips on implementing family-friendly working practices.
This booklet has been produced by business for business.
Flexibility for the future: The Government’s response to the recommendations of the Family Friendly Working Hours Taskforce
On Tuesday 30 March 2010 Government published its response to 'Flexible working: working for families, working for business'.
The Government welcomes the Taskforce’s recommendations, which have provided a more focused steer on how we can support employers. It has provided key ides on how we may better engage with employers and also highlighted the need to stimulate the recruitment agency market which has not yet been fully explored.
Our response outlines our strategy for a flexible labour market and sets out how we propose to take forward the recommendations proposed by the Taskforce.
